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amother
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 Sun, Apr 28 2024, 5:02 pm
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What’s the thing with garlic? Is it okay to use?
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amother
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Sun, Apr 28 2024, 5:08 pm
Hungarians avoid garlic by minhag. If you strictly follow those minhagim , avoid garlic.
Otherwise go ahead and use. Although the caveat here is that im obviously not a rabbi. I use fresh garlic and fresh ginger.
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amother
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Sun, Apr 28 2024, 5:09 pm
In Eastern Europe, the garlic grew near the wheat fields and it was a problem of chometz. When my grandparents came to America after WWII, they saw that there was granulated garlic packaged with a pesach hechsher and so with that assurance that there wasn't a chometz problem, they started using it. With time, they transitioned to fresh garlic as well after speaking to the rabbanim in America.
For some people there is a very strong minhag not to use garlic at all because of the above. Many families hold this way.
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amother
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Sun, Apr 28 2024, 5:09 pm
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Garlic is kosher for passover. It's not not chometz and it's not kitniyos.
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amother
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Sun, Apr 28 2024, 5:11 pm
| amother PlumPink wrote: | | Garlic is kosher for passover. It's not not chometz and it's not kitniyos. |
It’s not an issue of kosher or not kosher.
It’s a minhag, and some people are very serious about minhagim.
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amother
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Sun, Apr 28 2024, 5:12 pm
| amother Pear wrote: | In Eastern Europe, the garlic grew near the wheat fields and it was a problem of chometz. When my grandparents came to America after WWII, they saw that there was granulated garlic packaged with a pesach hechsher and so with that assurance that there wasn't a chometz problem, they started using it. With time, they transitioned to fresh garlic as well after speaking to the rabbanim in America.
For some people there is a very strong minhag not to use garlic at all because of the above. Many families hold this way. |
Thanks for the source!! Why would it be kitniut if it grew next to wheat?
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amother
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Sun, Apr 28 2024, 5:15 pm
| amother OP wrote: | | Thanks for the source!! Why would it be kitniut if it grew next to wheat? |
It was not kitniyot. It was actual chometz because the wheat and garlic would mix and grow together.
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amother
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Sun, Apr 28 2024, 5:17 pm
| amother Pear wrote: | | It was not kitniyot. It was actual chometz because the wheat and garlic would mix and grow together. |
And how do we know that it’s okay to use now and not growing near wheat?
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chocolate moose
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Sun, Apr 28 2024, 5:19 pm
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you/re going to peel the garlic, aren't you? even if it did grow near wheat?
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amother
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Sun, Apr 28 2024, 5:23 pm
| amother OP wrote: | | And how do we know that it’s okay to use now and not growing near wheat? |
From our rabbanim. We follow our rabbis when there are questions. The OU, Star-K and the CRC (Chicago Rabbinic Council) who we follow all say fresh garlic is ok.
If you're not sure if you hold that way, call your rabbi.
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